| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Adam Brightwell <adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PATCH: Configurable file mode mask |
| Date: | 2018-03-13 18:47:53 |
| Message-ID: | 28884.1520966873@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net> writes:
> On 03/13/2018 01:50 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> I'll point out that PG does run on quite a few other OS's beyond Linux.
> I'll second that, as I think it is making my argument. When I can
> supply three or four examples of semantic subtleties that undermine
> PG's assumptions under Linux alone, the picture when broadened to
> those quite-a-few other platforms as well certainly doesn't become
> simpler!
Well, to be blunt, what we target is POSIX-compatible systems. If
you're telling us to worry about non-POSIX filesystem semantics,
and your name is not Microsoft, it's going to be a hard sell.
We have enough to do just keeping up with that scope of target
systems.
regards, tom lane
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